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Marketa Lazarová

  • Dir: František Vláčil

  • Czechoslovakia, 1967, Czech, German, 160mins, DCP

  • Cast: Josef Kemr, František Velecký, Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch

Adapted from Vladislav Vančura’s novel, but owing as much to Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, this defiantly surreal medieval tragic epic took nearly seven years to make, unfolding in the snow-driven climes of a desolate landscape, perpetually contested by feuding Catholics and pagans. After ambushing a caravan of wealthy travellers, brothers Mikoláš and Adam take a young nobleman hostage, while allowing his father to escape. This sets in motion an escalating conflict between the families, with the transcendent virginal beauty, Marketa, caught in the middle. Hailed as the greatest Czechoslovakian film ever made, Vláčil’s best-known work is an elliptical, nightmarish tale of feuding clans and forbidden love that tackles eternal clashes of wealth and poverty, love and war, faith and pragmatism.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: In Competition

Cannes Directors' Fortnight

11/7(Sat): Film Talk with Bryan Chang

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.